Stamping-machine.



PATENTBD DEC. 4, 1906. J. A. McANULTY. STAMPING MACHINE.-

APILIUATION FILED DEC. 14, 1905.

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No. 837,633. PATENTED DEC. 4, 1906.

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STAMPING MACHINE.

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JOHN A. MoANULTY, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR, BY DIRECT AND MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, To THE SANITARY STOPPER COMPANY, OF

BALTIMORE. MARYLAND.

STAMPING-MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 4, 1906.

Application filed December 14. 1905. Serial No. 291.916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1, JOHN ARMSTRONG Mo- ANULTY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain newand useful Im rovements in Stamping Machines, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in stamping-machines; and the objects are to provide means for stamping or cutting round, square, or irregular shapes, for print: ing one or both sides either separately from the cutting operation or in unison with the cutting, and for coating the product with liquid material all 'at one operation. These objects I attain by use of the invention herein described, and illustrated by the ac- Figure 1 is a side elevation 1n part sectional and with one side frame removed. Fig. 2 is a front sectional view of my invention with one ink-fountain removed. Fig. 3 is a top View with the upper cross-tie of the framework removed.

and 12 are vertical side frame parts. 13 and 14 are horizontal top and bottom tieplates connecting the side parts. 15 and 16 are horizontal through-shafts 'ournaled in the side parts one above the other and connected by gear-wheels 17 and 18, which serve to maintain their revolutions in unison. A drive-wheel 19 may be mounted on either end of either shaft for power connec' tion witha motor-engine or other means of propulsion. A flanged cylmder 20 is mounted on the shaft 16, in the outer c rcumference of which are formed receptacles for hollow cutting-dies 22, the cutting edges of which are made to conformto the shapes required to be made. The stems of the cutters extend inward through the shell of the cylinwar der and are hollow and formed to receive strirpers 23, the stems of which extend inthrough the stems of the cutters and are 'rovided with compression-s rings 24 and 1am-nuts 25, which provide a justment as to length of the stems and friction-surfaces to act against the face of the camwheel 26, mounted on the shaft 16, and which is preferably held to transverse and lateral position by means of a lever 27, fulcrumed inpro or position by the arm 28, which is attac ed to the frame-pieces 12. erates to force the strippers outward from The cam o -1- to X when in the position shown on shaft 16 in Fig. 2 and permits the strippers to remain seated when in the position shown on shaft 15.

A cylinder 21, mounted on shaft 15, provides the counter-surface against which the cutting-knives 22 operate. This cylinder may be constructed of a yielding substance in order to permit the proper action of the cutting-knives; but I prefer to make it of Substantial material, such as metal, and to insert in it at points corresponding accurately with the positions of the cutting-knives counter-blocksAO, of relatively soft nretal, against which the knives cut.

A feed-trough 29, .mounted on the frame part 31 and 32, forms a guide to the material eing operated upon.

The foregoing-described arts of myinvention relate to the handing of materials and are operated as follows: Power being applied to the wheel 19', the two cylinders 20 and 21 are put in motion'in the direction indicated b arrows in Fig. 1. The materials to be use are fed through the trough 29 forward between the edges of the hollow cutters 22 and the face of the cylinder 21, which are set to come in contact with each other, cutting through the material. The formed pieces are retained within the cutters and are carried around with them to the position shown at X in Fig. 1, when they are expelled from the cutters by means of the strippers 23, being forced outward by their contact with the expanded portion of the face of the cam 26.

Where the articles being manufactured are required to be printed or stamped on one frame-pieces 31 and 31, attached to the.

horizontal bar 32 in such a manner as to hold the rollers 33v in contact with the projected faces of the strippers 23, While they protrude beyond the faces of the cutters22, as shown in the lower part of Figs. 1 and 2.

Movement is imparted to the inking-rollers 35 through the gear connections 36 and 37 with the shafts 38 and 15. The ink is su lied from the receptacle formed by t e ii'ame side pieces 31 and 31, the face of the roller 35, and the spring-gate 39, the latter being aflixed to the frame connection and provided with set-screws for limiting its adpistment relative to the face of the roller 35.

rom this receptacle the ink is distributed to the roller-faces by contact with the rollers 33, 34, and 35. r

If the article to be manufactured is re quired to be printed or embossed on both sides, type or en ravings may also be formed in the faces of the counter-blocks 40, set in the cylinder 21, as shown in the upper parts of-Figs. 1, 2, and 3, Where the stems are shown projecting inward through the cylinder and are provided with jam-nuts 41, which form friction-surfaces to act against the cam 26 and to cause the extension of the counter-blocks 40 outward for the purpose of receiving ink. The nuts also act against one end of compression-. rings 42, which are mounted on the stems of the counter-blocks 40 between the lock-nuts and the inner wall of the cylinder. The action of the springs returns the counter-blocks to their seated position in the bod of the cylinder in print ing'position after 'aving received ink from the rollers 43, which are mounted in conjunc tion with the c linder 21 in the same manner as the beforeescribed ink-well is mounted and operated in conjunction with the cylinder 20.

In the manufacture of products requirin to be lacquered or coated with any liqui material a bath is arranged under the cylinder 20,'to which are journaled shafts 51 and 52, upon which are mounted wheels 53 and 54, around which traverse an endless belt 55. Within the walls of the bath are also journaled shafts 56 and 57, upon which are mounted wheels 58 and 59, under which the belt passes and towhich motion is im parted fromthe cylinder-shaft 16, carrying the gear-wheel 60, to the shaft 51 through the tion of the rotation, and means for movgear-wheel 61 The belt 55 is provided with projections .62, formin pockets in the surface of the belt. The be t is adapted to travel with the exact velocity of speed as that of the eri heral s eed of the cutters 22 in the cy in er 20.

urin their travel the cutters 22 register with t e passing pockets in the belt so perfectly that each of the articles 63 being dis charged from the hollow cutters is received in one of the travelin ockets in the belt 55 and is carried by the e t down into the bath around the wheel 59. After traversing the liquid substance constituting the bath the grtifile is discharged over the rear end of the Having thus fully described myinvention,

what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, 'is

1. In a machine for cutting shapes from sheet material, a pair of cooperating rotary members, one of which is provided with a knife-edge cutter presented outwardly at its periphery, and the other of 'Whichis provided with a counter-block located to coincide with the cutter as the members rotate and to cooperate therewith in the cutting action; said counter-block being provided with aprintingsurface, and having means for presentin it beyond the' surface of the rotary mem er during a portion of the rotation whereby it may receive printing-ink.

2. In a machine for cutting shapes from sheet material, a air of rotary members, one of which is provi( ed with a knifeedge cutter conformin in outline to the article to be produced, and the other of which provides a sur-' a printing-surface in position to make an im pression u on the article produced by the cutter, an movin outwardly after the cutting operation to e ect the article and to presept its printing-surface in position to receive in 1 4. 'The combination of the rotary member carrying a knife-edge cutting-dieW1th a. stri per located within the same, and movab e radially outward, a cam between whichand the rotary member, there is relative rotation in the operation of the' machine, engaging the stripper to project it outwardly during a poring said cam axially out of the plane of the strlpper.

'5. The combination of the rotary member carrying a knife-edge cutting-die with a stri per located within the same and movab e radially outward, a cam between which and the rotary member there is relative rotation in the operation of the machine, engaging the stripper to project it outwardl during a portion of the rotation, said cam being movable axially out of the plane of the stripper, and a lever engaging said camand adapted to fix its position. v

6. In a machine for cutting articles from device carried by one rotary men'il sheet material of substantially the character described having a radially-movable counter- Correction in Letters Patent No. 837.633.

block, a cam causing projection of the councooperating with said cutter to perform the cutting operation, and a conveyer moving in proximity to the surface of the rotary member and having pockets or receptacles receiving from the cutters, the forms produced thereby.

i). In. a machine [or cutting articles from sheet material, the combination of a rotary member carrying a knife-edge cutter, means cooperating with said cutter to perform the cutting operation which leaves the article formed within. the knife-edge cutter, a strip- .per located within the cutter, means causing the stripper to eject the article fromthe cutter'at a given pointin the rotation, and a con.- veyer having pockets or receptacles moving at corresponding surface speed with the cutter and presenting its pockets in position to receive'each article ejected from the cutter, substantially as described.

10. In a machine for cutting articles from sheet material, the combination of a rotary.

member having a plurality of knife-edge cutters presented in cutting position in 113$ pe- Patent Oflice.

[smart] i riphery, member to cause the knives to cut articles from a sheet fed to the machine, and an endless carrier having pockets or receptacles moved by saidcarrier into receiving relation withthe surface of the rotary'member and timed in its travel to cause the pockets or receptacles to coincide with the cutters in the operation of the machine. I

11. In a machine for cutting from sheet material, the combination of the rotary member carrying 'a knife-edge cutter, suitable means cooperating with said cutter to perform the cutting operation, and a conveyer moving in proximity to the surface of the retary member and having pockets or recepmeans cooperating with said rotary 1 tacles receiving from the cutters the forms produced thereby and a bath of coating material through which said conveyer carries the articles which it receives from the cutter.

12. In a 'machine of the character described, thecombination of a rotary member provided with knife-edge cutters which cut and retain articles of desired shape from sheet material, means Within said cutters for printing the article thus termed and e ect1ng it at a given point in the rotation of the rotary member, a conveyer receiving the artieles'from the cutters, and a bath to which the articles are delivered by said conveyer.

Iii testimony whereof afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. MCANULTY.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. MARTIN, LILLIAN P. PENINGTON.

It is hereby certified that the assignee in Letters Patent No. 837,633, granted December 4, 1906, upon the application of John A. McAnnlty, of Baltimore, Maryland, for an improvement in Stamping-Machines," shou1d have been described and specified as The Sanitary Stopper Company of Baltimore City, instead of The Sanitary Stopper Company, of Baltimore, Maryland; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Signed and sealed this 1st day of January, A. D., 1907.

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

Correction in Letters Patent No. 837.633.

block, a cam causing projection of the councooperating with said cutter to perform the cutting operation, and a conveyer moving in proximity to the surface of the rotary member and having pockets or receptacles receiving from the cutters, the forms produced thereby.

i). In. a machine [or cutting articles from sheet material, the combination of a rotary member carrying a knife-edge cutter, means cooperating with said cutter to perform the cutting operation which leaves the article formed within. the knife-edge cutter, a strip- .per located within the cutter, means causing the stripper to eject the article fromthe cutter'at a given pointin the rotation, and a con.- veyer having pockets or receptacles moving at corresponding surface speed with the cutter and presenting its pockets in position to receive'each article ejected from the cutter, substantially as described.

10. In a machine for cutting articles from sheet material, the combination of a rotary.

member having a plurality of knife-edge cutters presented in cutting position in 113$ pe- Patent Oflice.

[smart] i riphery, member to cause the knives to cut articles from a sheet fed to the machine, and an endless carrier having pockets or receptacles moved by saidcarrier into receiving relation withthe surface of the rotary'member and timed in its travel to cause the pockets or receptacles to coincide with the cutters in the operation of the machine. I

11. In a machine for cutting from sheet material, the combination of the rotary member carrying 'a knife-edge cutter, suitable means cooperating with said cutter to perform the cutting operation, and a conveyer moving in proximity to the surface of the retary member and having pockets or recepmeans cooperating with said rotary 1 tacles receiving from the cutters the forms produced thereby and a bath of coating material through which said conveyer carries the articles which it receives from the cutter.

12. In a 'machine of the character described, thecombination of a rotary member provided with knife-edge cutters which cut and retain articles of desired shape from sheet material, means Within said cutters for printing the article thus termed and e ect1ng it at a given point in the rotation of the rotary member, a conveyer receiving the artieles'from the cutters, and a bath to which the articles are delivered by said conveyer.

Iii testimony whereof afiix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

JOHN A. MCANULTY.

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. MARTIN, LILLIAN P. PENINGTON.

It is hereby certified that the assignee in Letters Patent No. 837,633, granted December 4, 1906, upon the application of John A. McAnnlty, of Baltimore, Maryland, for an improvement in Stamping-Machines," shou1d have been described and specified as The Sanitary Stopper Company of Baltimore City, instead of The Sanitary Stopper Company, of Baltimore, Maryland; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein that the same may conform to the record of the ease in the Signed and sealed this 1st day of January, A. D., 1907.

F. I. ALLEN,

Commissioner of Patents.

It is hereby certified that the assignee in Letters Patent No. 837,633, granted December 4, 1906, upon the application of John A. McAriulty, of Baltimore, Maryland, for an improvement in Stamping-Machines, should have been described and specified as The Sanitary Stopper Company of Baltimore City, instead of The Sanitary Stopper Company, of Baltimore, Maryland; and that the said Letters Patent should be read with this correction therein lllat the same may conform to the record of the case in the Patent Ofiice.

Signed and sealed this let day of January, A. 'D., 1907.

F. I. ALLEN,

Commimbner of Patents.

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